News

2015-06-26:

Temelin/CZ: Slight radioactivity outside of the allowed areas was found in nuclear power plant Temelin during the shutdown of the second unit - on the roof of the structures surrounding the unit, but the staff and the environment were not endangered according to Temelin´s spokesman Marek Svitak. The planned shutdown of the second unit started on April 18 and originally was to end in the middle of June. During preparations for the start of fuel replacement, an untightness was identified between the primary and secondary circuit on steam generator number four on June 26. The unit was then shut down again for repairs.

2015-06-23

In NPP Dukovany/CZ, the fourth unit had to be taken from the grid because of a leak in the secundary water circuit.

2015-06-04

Fessenheim/F had again to be shut-down due to pipe-fault.

2015-04-07

Anomalies have been identified in the composition of the steel in certain parts of the reactor vessel of the EPR under construction at Flamanville, Areva has informed the French nuclear regulator.

2015-03-02

Fessenheim/F had to be shut-down due to pipe-fault.

2015-02-17

Electrabel, the owner and operator of Belgiumâ€™s Doel-3 and Tihange-2 nuclear units, has discovered more flaws on the unitsâ€™ reactor pressure vessels (RPVs), the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Fanc) has said. After the latest round of testing, Electrabel discovered that Doel-3â€™s RPV has 13,047 hydrogen-induced flaws instead of the 8,000 which were previously identified. Tihange-2 has 3,149 flaws instead of the previously reported 2,000.

October 2014

Romania: SNN and the Chinese CGN signed a binding agreement that made the latter the â€œselected investorâ€. However, with SNN proposing to invest in the life extension of the first two units at Cernavoda at â‚¬1.2â€“1.5 billion (US$1.4â€“1.7 billion) per unit, it is looking for 100 percent investment in the completion of the third unit. (source WNIS 2015)

2014-10-09:

A contract for the realization of the second stage of the project for extending the operational capacity of Unit 5 of NPP Kozloduy was signed. The commissioner of the contract is the Bulgarian nuclear power plant; the contractor is a consortium comprising of â€œRusatom Servicesâ€, â€œRosenergoatomâ€, and EDF. The goal is to extend the total lifetime of Unit 5 to 60 years. The license of the unit issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency expires in 2017. Similar steps will be taken for Unit 6 whose license expires in 2019. The extension of the capacity of Units 5 and 6 is a national priority and is included in the programme of the new government.

2014-06-27: New reactor in Argentinia online

The new reactor at the Atucha nuclear power plant was put online on 27 June 2014.read more

2013-07-11: Spains oldes nuclear reactor closed

2013-01-15: Restart of Belgian reactors postponed

The Belgian nuclear safety authority yesterday announced that it is postponing a decision on the restart of two reactors (Doel 3 and Tihange 2) that were shut down over the summer due to the discovery of fissures in their cores.

2012-Jan: Incident in French facility Cattenom

On Jan 18th 2012 Cattenoms operator EDF announced French nuclear regulatory authority ASN about a nuclear incident in December 2011. No radioactivity was released, but nuclear safety was compromised: The fuel storage pools could have accidentally run out due to a missing technical part. Due to the potential consequences the event was rated INES level 2 in Feb. 2012.read more

2010-12-02

1163 notifiable incidents in Germany

2010-08-10

Fires in Russia: Nuclear facilities on alert

NPPs are not directly threatended yet but develop action plans for reducing likelihood of fire - fire close to the Snezhinsk nuclear research centre in the Urals has been brought under control by now.read more

2009-06-04

Expansion of nuclear fuel repository in Finland approved

2009-06-03

SKB today announced the site for a permanent disposal site for used nuclear fuel in Sweden:

2009-05-30

Shutdown of Cernavoda (Romania)

Due to a burst water pipe on of the reactors of Cernavoda had to be shut down temporaryread more

2009-05-28

Link of WHO and IAEA

An agreement made in 1959 gives the IAEA an effective veto on actions by the WHO that relate to nuclear power:
Whenever one of the two organisations wants to do anything in which the other might have an interest, it "shall consult the other with a view to adjusting the matter by mutual agreement".
By the agreement the WHO may have underestimated the real risk of nuclear radiation and the death toll of Chernobyl.
The British radiation biologist Keith Baverstock says that current risk models for nuclear radiation were understating the real hazards.
read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/28/who-nuclear-power-chernobyl

2009-03-20

Nigeria plans to start nuclear programme

2009-03-16

No new reactors needed in Finland?

The Finnish minister of economic affairs Mauri Pekkarinen said in an interview that no new reactors were needed after Olkiluoto-3. Currently the applications for three new reactors are in progress.read more

Recommissioning of Bulgarian NPP?

2009-01-23

Stutdown of reactor 1 in Temelin

2009-01-19

Poland plans the construction of NPPs

The Polish government announced that it planned to build two new nuclear reactors for maintaining the security of energy supplies. Currently there are no NPPs operating in Poland. The Å»arnowiec Nuclear Power Plant project, which was supposed to be Poland's first NPP, was abandoned after protests in the early 1990ies, although it was nearly finished at that time.

2009-01-14

AREVA-Siemens estimates Olkiluoto 3 will be completed in summer of 2012